Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1887-06-23

the furniture for the new insane asylum
at Toledo has been secured by the Widdi
comb Furniture company of Grand Rapids
The contract includes sets for 100 bed
rooms, 1, 200 lineal feet of tables and Other
furniture to the amount of several thous
and dollars.
Mrs. Mary j. Ryan has commenced suit
against Anton Westermeyer, a .Muskegon
saloonist, for $40, 900, for the sale of liquor
to her husband. VIM. j. Ryan, who, IL is
alleged, became intoxicated at defendant S
saloon one night i'm 1882 and, being turned
out, fell into a hole near the saloon and
was thereby crippled for life.
Hcmatite ore has been found on the
Brass mine property, between NegauneC
and Ishpeming. The great Importance OF
this discovery lies IN the fact that it con
meets the Negaunee and lshpeming mines
in both north and south veins, showing
that the ore formation of the district Is
continuous and without break or fault.
Nicholas Kotz, boy aged 16, was shot
and instantly killed on Orleans street, De-
trOit, on the afternoon of Sunday, June 10.
AS near as can he ascertained the shooting
was accidental, although so many con-
iicting rumors are aloat that it is hard to
determine. Six companions who Were
with him have been arrested pending an
examination.
The other afternoon while j. c. Ryan
and Harry Freloar were drilling out n
blast hole which had missed fire at the
Paint river NINE at Crystal Falls, the blast
went off blowing off the heads and arms of
both men and horribly mangling their
I.
Both men were unmarried and residents
of Crystal Falls.
Samuel Rose of Newaygo lived with a
woman twenty-five years although never
married TO her, introduced her as his wife,
she bore his name and everybody sup
posed her to be his lawful wife Lately,
in a divorce suit, he undertook to sneak
out of paying her alimOny on the ground
that they were never married. But the
jury thought they had been at least So, 900
worth.
A young lady of COrunna, teaching
school in Henderson, Shiawassee county,
punished a pupil named Elmer Dean,
nephew of the late Thomas Morrison, who
lost his life while trying to pound a teach
er i'm the same school. While doing so the
young desperate drew knife and stabbed
the teacher quite severely, but she being a
young lady of good grit finally overpow-
cred him.
A company has been organized at Mus
kegOn under the name of the "IrOn Vein
Mining company" The capital stock is
listed at $3.50, 900, divided into $1,000
shares of $50 each. The object of the
company is to own and develop iron mines
i'm the Gogeblc district Wis. And for
this purpose the company now holds an
option on eighty acres of the mineral
range which promise as rich developments
as any of the famous mines in the north
west.
The following candidates successfully
passed the examination and have been adj
mitted to practice before the supreme court
of Michigan: Stewart A. Nandemark of
Detroit; A. ID. Ellick of Pennsylvania: j..
A. Neatly Of Detroit; j. A. Fairchild of
California; +. S. Parker, Chas. Reed and
Will +. Brown of Ann Arbor; James w.
Twaits. BertOn l.. Jones and Henry ID.
Jones. The last three are of Lansing,
Mr.. Twaits being popular employe OF
the state library.
Henry ST. Clair and Edwin Seeler were
arrested in Toledo, Ohio, few days ago
county, accompanied by eX-Sherif Brown.
visited the jail and identified the prisoners
as confidence men who had worked Brown
for 1000. The sheriff of Sandusky coun-
~ and Mr. King of Fremont, Ohio, had
previously identified the men as the ones
who mulcted Mr. King out of SO. 900. The
prisoners are believed to have piled their
vocation about Detroit and Toledo for some
time. and new developments are expected.
They were taken to Fremont
A shocking accident occurred at Wilson,
Luther d Wilson's lumber camp near
Luther. which resulted in the death of
Robert Downes, aged IS years. who fell
on the main belt which drives the shinglc
mill This belt travels at the rate of about
a mile per minute. He was caught and
carried around a siX-fOot pulley and thrown
from there about sixteen feet, striking his
head against post, killing him instantly.
The DOwnes family have been afflicted
with several violent deaths within year
or two by drowning, scalding and railroad
accidents, one brother of the dead youth
being blind now.